BIODIVERSITAS ISSN: 1412-033X Volume 21, Number 3, March 2020 E-ISSN: 2085-4722 Pages: 1142-1148 DOI: 10.13057/biodiv/d210339 Harvesting trends of Amboina box turtles (Cuora amboinensis) seventeen years after listing in Appendix II CITES MUHAMMAD ALIF FAUZI1, AMIR HAMIDY2, NIA KURNIAWAN1, 1Department of Biology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Universitas Brawijaya. Jl. Veteran, Malang 65145, East Java, Indonesia. Tel.: +62-341-554403, email:
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[email protected] 2Museum Zoologicum Bogoriense, Research Center for Biology, Indonesian Institute of Sciences. Widyasatwaloka Building, Jl. Raya Jakarta Bogor Km 46, Cibinong, Bogor 16911, West Java, Indonesia Manuscript received: 4 October 2019. Revision accepted: 21 February 2020. Abstract. Fauzi MA, Hamidy A, Kurniawan N. 2020. Harvesting trends of Amboina box turtles (Cuora amboinensis) seventeen years after listing in Appendix II CITES. Biodiversitas 21: 1142-1148. Among Southeast Asian freshwater turtles, the Amboina box turtle (Cuora amboinensis) held the highest recorded harvesting levels. The large volumes of harvesting influenced its International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) revised the conservation status of C.amboinensis from Near Threatened to Vulnerable in 2000. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) also inclusion of Amboina box turtle in Appendix II category. The CITES trade database provided a data set that tracks the legal trade of C. amboinensis in the global market from 2000 to 2017. Before 2005, Malaysia was the largest major supplier of this species to the global market. However, after 2005, Indonesia replaces Malaysia as the biggest exporter. From 2005 to 2014, the data showed that the trade trends already followed the quota of provisions.